... . A GOOD old-fashioned melodrama, sir; a dramatic fossil, in fact, is now being exhumed at the Olympic Theatre for the diver tisement of literary palæontologists. Lusty blows given and taken in the good old stage-combat style. One, two, three, four --sixes! upper cut, under cut, thrust, and parry, all in the Brayvo, 'Icks! fashion, the interest breathlessly enhanced by the hero carrying a ...

... . RICHARD WAGNER'S FLYING DUTCHMAN. SIX years back, the Fliegende Hollander of Richard Wagner was performed at Drury Lane, during Mr. George Wood's ill starred Italian Opera season, under the title of L'Olandese Dan nato, and met with little success. On Tuesday last, the same work, in an English dress, and under the title of The Flying Dutchman, was produced at the Lyceum Theatre, by Mr. Carl ...

... MUSIC. Music intended for notice in the Monthly Review of New Music, on the ;ast Saturday of each month, must be sent on or before the previous V. STRAND THEATRE.-- PRINCESS TOTO. WHEN so skilful a writer as Mr. Gilbert, and so genial a com poser as Mr. Frederick Clay, combine their energies in the pro duction of a three-act comic opera, the public must feel interested; and the Strand ...

... NiW*jWUsell£s rrj vy-IWvyISvL-.,' vvv b y gg WILLIAM CZERNY.-- Taken as a desirable but irksome study, Six Pianoforte Pieces for the Left Hand Only, by Carl Hanse, may be pronounced useful for stude ...

... . I DARESAY some of my more liberal play-going friends will be surprised when I tell them that on witnessing at the Alhambra, for the first time, the performance of those obscene posture- masters styled the Fiji Flutterers, I indulged in a good steady hiss. Not that I altogether approve of sibillation as a general expression of popular or individual discontent, but there are times when it is ...

... 0 J .ZkYV WJ V's-' v^sssW>i klsJbK Y MR. CARL ROSA'S OPERA COMPANY.-- Wagner's Fliegende Holländer has now been played four times at the Lyceum. In consequence of its great success, it is the determin ...

... . Idyls of the Rink. Edited by the Author of Epigrams and Epitaphs on the late General Election. London Judd and Co., 81, Cheapside. THERE is very little epigram in this collection of parodies, but, by way of compensation we suppose, there are a good many limp ing lines. If the author had studied Mr. Calverley's method of workmanship, he might have produced neater results. As it is, such ...

... Ifailr wusid ijj| MADAME GODDARD'S RECITALS.-- The return of Madame Arabella Goddard, after an absence of nearly four years in Australia, India, China, and America, was welcomed by amateurs of genuine ...

... . Travel and Sport in Burmah, Siam, and Malay. By JOHN Bradley. London Samuel Tinsley. Mr. Bradley's book is a brisk, straightforward, and sportsman like account of many strange wild adventures, with brief descrip tions of scenery aud incidents of travel, interesting anecdotes of men and animals, and other matters relating to wanderings in out-of-the-way nooks of strange lands. It is a book ...

... SUCCESS, AND HOW HE WON IT, from the German of E. Werner, by Christina Tyrrell (3 vols.: Bentley).-- A week or two ago we had to protest against the flood of fiction which has already risen beyond a ...

... . To the long list of theatres already open in London, three more have been added this week-- the St. James's, Royal Park, and Charing Cross, under its new designation of The Folly. Messrs. Sanger commence their season at the National Amphi theatre to-night; the Royalty opens on Monday for a series of French plays; Mr. Hollingshead reopens the Opera Comique on Monday week, the 30th inst.; ...

... . ABOUT a year and a half ago a piece was produced by a French company at the Opera Comique, called Les Trente Millions de Gladiator. Fun, side-splitting fun was the mainspring of the play; I say advisedly play for there was no pretence of work about it. The situations were comical, the dialogue smart, and the plot like the plots of most comedies, merely a thread to string the ads of wit and ...